Brad Prager is Professor of German and Film Studies. His areas of research include Holocaust Studies, Film History, Contemporary German Cinema, and the art and literature of German Romanticism. He is the author of After the Fact: The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (London: Wallflower, 2007) and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (Rochester: Camden House, 2007). He is the co-editor of a volume on Visual Studies and the Holocaust entitled Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (Camden House, 2008), of a volume on contemporary German cinema entitled The Collapse of the Conventional: German Cinema and its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Wayne State UP, 2010), the editor of A Companion to Werner Herzog (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and, together with Roger F. Cook, Lutz Koepnick, and Kristin Kopp, of Berlin School Glossary: An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema (Intellect, 2013).

Professor Prager received the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in 2015, and an Excellence in Education Award from the Division of Student Affairs in 2016. He has been a DAAD Guest Professor at the University of Paderborn, where he organized the conference “The Holocaust on Screen in the 21st Century." He has been the university's appointed representative on the state's Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission, a guest at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has taught for the Holocaust Educational Foundation in Evanston, and he is the co-organizer of the annual documentary film conference “Based on a True Story” at MU. In the Summer of 2017 he was a Guest Professor in Literature and Media at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg.

“Running Images in Benjamin Heisenberg’s Films: A French Connection,” in A Transnational Art-Cinema: The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts, eds. Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher (Detroit: Wayne State UP) forthcoming.

"The Act of Digging: Archaeology, Photography, and Forensics in Birthplace and Holocaust by Bullets" in Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation, eds. Gerd Bayer and Oleksandr Kobrynskyy (Wallflower/ Columbia University Press, 2015) 59-75.

"Lars Kraume’s Die kommenden Tage and the History of the Near Future: Apocalypse Another Day," in The Place of Politics in German Film, ed. Martin Blumenthal-Barby (Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2014), 269-86.

"The Warsaw Ghetto, Seen from the Screening Room: The Images that Dominate A Film Unfinished,” New German Critique 123 (2014), 135-57.

"The Trail Runs Cold: DEFA's Crime Films" in DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture: A Companion, eds. Marc Silberman and Henning Wrage (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014) 157-176.

"'Only the Wounded Honor Fights': Züli Aladag's Rage and the Drama of the Turkish German Perpetrator" in Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens, eds. Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel (Berghahn Books, 2012) 109-120.

"Werner Herzog's Companions: The Consolation of Images" in A Companion to Werner Herzog (Boston and London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2012) 1-31.

"Occupation as the Face of War: Concealing Violence in the Diary A Woman in Berlin" in Fighting Words and Images: Representing War Across the Disciplines, eds. Elena Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller (University of Toronto Press, 2012) 65-83.

"Through the Looking Glass: Fassbinder's World on a Wire" in A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ed. Brigitte Peucker, (Boston and London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2012) 245-66.

"Music After Mauthausen: Re-Presenting the Holocaust in Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters" in New Directions in German Cinema, eds. Paul Cooke and Christopher Homewood (I.B. Tauris, 2011) 77-93.

"Glimpses of Freedom: The Reemergence of Utopian Longing in German Cinema" in The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, eds. Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager (Wayne State UP, 2010) 360-85.

"Passing Time since the Wende: Recent German Film on Unification," German Politics and Society 28.1 (2010) 95-110.

"The Stones Begin to Speak: The Laboring Subject in Early DEFA Documentaries" in German Postwar Films. Life and Love in the Ruins, eds. William Rasch and Wilfred Wilms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) 77-91.

"Interpreting the Visible Traces of Theresienstadt," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (2008) 175-194.